A Renaissance woman defined as a self-taught artist, writer, community activist and advocate of the arts, E. Joyce Moore, whose artistic name is JEMI, holds a passion for the arts since childhood. In 1997, she founded a grassroots organization supporting the education of and about artists of color and African descent: the Alliance of African American Artists, Inc. Her passion for fine arts have given her the opportunity to work with such talents as author Dr. Halima Taha, Ora Reed - cultural ambassador for the state of Mississippi, jazz musician Pharez, and classic tenor Derrick Alton. Joyce is an artist, a fine art advocate, a poet and a writer of numerous articles published by Black Suburban Journal newspaper, American Vision magazine, and Newslink, including an on-going column "From the Stoop." She wrote play and movie reviews for NUVO newspaper, and has op-eds and articles published with an array of e-zines, national and international online news sources and various hard-copy magazines and publications. Her writing experiences include interviews of public figures such as Kwesi Mfume, Ed Gordon, Slide Hampton and the Hampton family. She self-published her first non-fiction book, "Gettin' to the Good Wood" which received exceptional reviews from the Indianapolis Recorder and the 2004 Midwest Book Review, and this book is her first collection of poetry. She is a contributor to a number of books, including Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, What is the Purpose of a Banana by Dr. Carlton Green, Gumbo for the Soul,the MoAD Stories Project and the MoAD Stories Project: I've Known Rivers. She has expressed her creativity on film, directing a cable television show in Indiana  in 1984, creating an infomercial for AT&T products in 1988 and producing a video, introducing various emerging artists for the 2000 National Black Fine Arts Show.